How to format your references using the Business Ethics: A European Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Business Ethics: A European Review. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Peeples, M. S. (2015). Astronomy: Cosmic fog and smog. Nature, 517(7535), 444–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klenerman, P., & McMichael, A. (2007). AIDS/HIV. Finding footprints among the trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5818), 1505–1507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wall, D. H., Nielsen, U. N., & Six, J. (2015). Soil biodiversity and human health. Nature, 528(7580), 69–76.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Panchal, V., Pearce, R., Yakimova, R., Tzalenchuk, A., & Kazakova, O. (2013). Standardization of surface potential measurements of graphene domains. Scientific Reports, 3, 2597.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Bachmann, H., & Steinle, A. (2012). Precast Concrete Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Hertzberg, J., Beetz, M., & Englert, R. (Eds.). (2007). KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10-13, 2007. Proceedings (Vol. 4667). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

He, S., Zheng, X., Zhang, C., & Wang, L. (2011). Topic-Oriented Information Detection and Scoring. In M. Chau, G. A. Wang, X. Zheng, H. Chen, D. Zeng, & W. Mao (Eds.), Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2011, Beijing, China, July 9, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 36–42). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Business Ethics: A European Review.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. (2012, January 1). Watch What Happens When An Octopus Gets In The Way Of A Crab Migration Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/enormous-crab-congregation-rips-an-octopus-to-shreds/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1992). Surface Transportation: Availability of Intercity Bus Service Continues to Decline (No. RCED-92-126). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Goodwell, L. Y. (2017). Do athletic trainers have a positive impact on high school athletes’ knowledge of injury prevention and training habits? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Vecsey, G. (2010, October 9). Kickers Form Bond And Find Sorority. New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Peeples, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Klenerman & McMichael, 2007; Peeples, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Klenerman & McMichael, 2007)
Three authors: (Wall, Nielsen, & Six, 2015)
6 or more authors: (Panchal, Pearce, Yakimova, Tzalenchuk, & Kazakova, 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Ethics: A European Review
Abbreviation	Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	0962-8770
ISSN (online)	1467-8608
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics